St. Paul daily globe., 1887-01-20
IT WAS A BOOMERANG.
The Attempt of North Dakota Members
to Run the Legislature Rav-
ing Failed,
The Men From the South Will Make
Things Extremely Unpleasant
From This On.
Bismarck VIII Get No Appropriation
for the Completion of
the Capitol.
Special to the Globe.


BISMARCK, Oak, Jan. 19.-The clouds
have cleared away and a good view can be
gotten to-day of the legislative battle
ground, and some idea can be had OF the
losses of North Dakota in being unable to
carry her point in the recent fight. when
the legislature convened Bismarck had two
favorS to ask. One was that the report OF
the capital commission be approved, and
that liberal appropriation be made Tor
the completion of the capitol, while Grand
Forks wanted money for the support OF her
educational institute and from all that can
be gathered she stood a good show
for getting these requests granted,
but now. through the conniving of
a few schemers, she has placed herself IN
bad odor, and finds herself truly beggar,
with reasonable probability that her peti-
tiOns will not be heard. The South is
naturally beIligerent and thirsting for re-
venge for the attempt to wrench the power
from her hands, and for the scheme to de-
pose her speaker and to reorganiZe the COM
mittees. 1t is given out that the North
STANDS NO SHOW
this session of getting an appropriation TO
complete the capitol, and if she gets any
thing for the Bismarck penltentary it will
be a yely small amount. The South IS now
antagonistic and for the manner in which
her lawmakers have been mOnkeyed with
they propose to have a sweet revenge. 1t
is said to-day that but few men OF the
North knew that the scheme was to depose
the speaker and unSeat all the elective OIL
GERS. When they learned that that was the
plan outlined by Williams, they refused to
have anything to do with it. All the ma
jority wanted was a reconstruction OF the
rules and reorganization of the COM
other officers of the house are
satisfactory to nearly every member.
There is story going to-day that Williams
was the father Of the scheme to unseat the
speaker with hopes that he might reach the
chair himself, but Monday night Mr.. Will
liams assured GLOBE correspondent that
no attempt would be made to oppose
Speaker Crosse. 1t is generally conceded
that the North, in the failure to carry out the
scheme, has lost many important points,
which she cannot recover during this ses-
sion. Sullivan and Mentzer, it is claimed,
are here for the purpose Of getting the
United States court from 9ankton to
Mitchell, scheme alleged to be
BACKED BY THE MILWAUKEE ROAD.
They were in the plot Of Monday and the
chances for making courts are vague. 1t is a
foregone conclusion that the United States
L
two years. 1t came out to-day that the
proposition to put up the combination that
came so near placing the power in the
hands of the North came from Alex Nc
KenZie. Williams. of Burleigh, and Jones.
of Charles Mix. who threw the bomb into
the camp Monday afternoon. it is claimed,
SAID to-day that the North had tried to
work them, and had been worked them
selves and it looks as though those words
clearly explained the situation. II is now too
late to change the rules. The only thing
the North can do is to get special commit
tees appointed if possible. to which mat
ters may be referred. but the Southern
stalwartS are thoroughly alive now and it
will be an exceedingly cold day when they
are caught mapping again. The report has
been sent out over the wire that Crosse
would resign the speanership and DR.. Stew
art, who resigned the Craftsmanship of COM
mittee on railroads, would be elected to the
position as compensation for the sacrifice
that he made. This report is wholly with
out foundation. Speaker Crosse is very
liable to remain in the chair until the close
of the session. To-day the speaker an
nouLced the changes in
THE CHAIRMANSHIPS
of the committees which were predicted by
the GLOBE yesterday. They are as follows:
Railroads. Hobert Roger; insurance appro-
priati0ns, Berry. Patten, of Union, re-
signed from the committee OH appropria-
tiOns and Jones was given his place. DR..
Stewart was made chairman of the commit
tee on ways and means. Hobart resigned
and Fletcher was made chairman of the
committee on education. The speaker an
nOunced the following committee on tenn
perance: Fletcher chairman, Sprague,
II
Wise. To the committee on penal institll-
tions were added Mallory and Dutch; to
charitable Institutions Ely and Miltimore
This is how the matterno stands and there
are no visible prospects Of another
scrimmage although there will bn more or
less sllirmiShing between the fact.ons dur
ING the session. Business was light in the
house to-day. Sprague, of Steel, introduced
a Joint resolution to the effect that the
saloon i'll the basement of the capitol be re-
moved. The resolution passed the house.
The saloon was opened in the basement the
day the legislature convened and has since
been doing thriving business. and has
been the cause several times. it Is claimed,
OF members being absent from their seats
during business hours. When the permit
was granted it embodied only the putting
in OF restaurant, but the
saloGn came i'll as necessary
adjunct. Thele are understood to be
thirty members in the house opposed to its
remaining, and it will probably go. as they
claim the reputation of the legislature as a
respectable and dgnified body demands its
removal. A concurrent resolution to the
effect that each member of the house and
council be furnished with six copies of the
daily and weekly newspapers during the
session passed the house
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION
is to be an important ISSUE during this ses-
sion, and the ball was set rolling by the in
PRODUCTION of bill to-day, of which the
following is a comprehensive abstract:
Upon application by a petition signed by
one-fourth of the qualified voters in any
county Of the territory the county clerk or
register of deeds shall order an election to be
held at the legally authorized places OF polling
to take place within forty days after the re-
ception of such petition by SAID officer or Off
GERS, to determine if such splrituous liquors
as are mentioned in the sixth section of this
act shall be sold or prohibited within the limit
Of such designated county. Provided that no
election held under this act shall
take place in any month in which general
elections are held: that all persons voting at
any election held under the provisions of this
act who are
OPPOSED TO THE SALE
OF such Intoxicating liquors as are mentioned
in the sixth section of this act shall have
written or printed on their ballots Against
the SALE and those who favor The sale shall
have printed on their ballots For the sale -
If the sale is prohibited by the vote and after
the law goes into effect, if a person is found
Selling alcoholic or spirituous liquors they
shall be punished by Il fine of not less than
500 nor more than $500, or Imprisonment for
not less than ten nor more than fifty days, or
BOTH and for Il second offense or any subse-
quent offense of this kind the fine shall not be
less than Sl00 nor more than $500, Or impris-
onment in the county Jail not less than